'doh I shut off my laptop display

[Bob Cortez]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
wrote:

> Bob Cortez wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:53 PM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> >
> >> |>     I've really buggered it up this time, and I have no clue how to
> >> |>     turn my display back on.  I've tried booting into the recovery
> >> |>     mode and using the command sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but
> >> |>     that didn't work.  Anyone have an answer that doesn't involve
> >> |>     reinstalling 8.04?
> >> |
> >>
> >> what about <control> <alt> <f1> can you login to tty1? then run sudo
> >> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> >
> >
> > Tried that as well.  Still nothing
> >
> > Thanks for the help, your effort is appreciated.
>
> I've got nothing direct, but about all I can think would do something like
> this is to have mucked with the settings that handle multiple displays -
> setting your primary display as a non-existent external display.  Is Gnome
> saving this perhaps?
>
> What happens if you simply move xorg.conf away, and then try to
> dpkg-reconfigure?
> --
> derek
>

Yes, that's exactly what I did.  I'll try your suggestion.  Thanks

Bob
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